A neat feature, that I just learned, ADD an Alpha Numeric character

Here is the scene. I have around 600 coords in a small town coord file.
They are LISTED as 1-665, plus a number of design coords, called S1-S150 (BTW, that S means Search)
Then, I got a file from Mr. W. Mr W's file, is 1-1100
Now, we have file name conflicts.

Here is a pic of the file. Looking at the above screen shot, there is a field "Name Prefix". Here I put a W.
Now, a "W" is added to EVERY point name. So, I can load these other coords, onto another PAGE, with an UNKNOWN coord system. This SOLVES the duplicate point name problem.
I can add more coords, later using other similar mechanisms.
OK, here you go.
Thank you Javad.
Nate

I haven't gotten into using PAGES yet. I guess my thought was since I do all my move-scale-rotate on the laptop I didn't use them. I just have field shots with regular numbers and calc points with C prefixes in my unit.

I can see it being a useful utility when I want to import some of my old data from older jobs and not go in and need to add new calc points. Just import to a page and prefix my old data. Hmmm.

Nate The Surveyor said:

Here is the scene. I have around 600 coords in a small town coord file.
They are LISTED as 1-665, plus a number of design coords, called S1-S150 (BTW, that S means Search)
Then, I got a file from Mr. W. Mr W's file, is 1-1100
Now, we have file name conflicts.
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Here is a pic of the file. Looking at the above screen shot, there is a field "Name Prefix". Here I put a W.
Now, a "W" is added to EVERY point name. So, I can load these other coords, onto another PAGE, with an UNKNOWN coord system. This SOLVES the duplicate point name problem.
I can add more coords, later using other similar mechanisms.
OK, here you go.
Thank you Javad.
Nate

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Been doing this for years importing a txt into microsoft excel sheet, and writing a formula to add an alpha character, copy and paste as value, then export a csv. Now it's as simple as one extra tap during import into my LS+, WAHOOO!